The Numbers Puzzle Wheel is a useful tool for learning numbers and their relationships. The numbers puzzle wheel is important for its ability to stimulate logical thinking, improve concentration, develop patience, enhance spatial awareness, provide relaxation, and offer educational benefits. It is a versatile puzzle that offers both recreational and cognitive advantages to children.

Here are some key reasons why the alphabet puzzle wheel is important:


*1.) Provides Visual representation*

*2.) Offers Hands-on learning opportunities*

*3.) Reinforces Number recognition and identification*

*4.) Aids appreciation and understanding of Number sequencing and patterns*

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RingRoadMafia:


The fact that you call an account with over 12 topics and 1200 comments an alternate shows just how smart you are.

I wasn't talking about you, I was talking about Banner. Has it occurred to you that perhaps I may know him outside of this place and that we talk?

THIS IS A VERY LONG READ.
IF YOU LOVE YOUR CHILD/CHILDREN TAKE THIS TRIP. READ ON.

I have to share this knowledge here because it just occurred to me that many Nairalanders are young parents.

I have been an educational consultant for a while now. We can learn from each other. I have related with over 2000 school owners. Less than 10% have heard of sight words. About 3%, please "I DO NOT" mean 30%. A miserly 3% know about sight words and are deploying them.

Almost all schools in the USA, Britain, Canada, Australia and many in India are using this method to get their children to start writing, reading, and comprehending earlier.
But there is good news here.
You can't assist your child's reading efforts using the phonics approach unless you are a graduate of the English language or a related discipline. With phonics, every word has to be broken down into syllables, synthesized, and sounded right.
But even with a modest education, teaching your child sight words is a piece of cake.


Sight words are spelled as they are written. Because is b, e, c, a, u, s, e. Shikina.
Hey! When we talk about sight words, you will be wondering: these words must gave fallen from heaven. No.

They are the words we use more frequently daily. Examples are; the, of, and, too, come, go, because...
Do a little research yourself. Let us be meeting here on this post for a week thereabouts, and share what we have learned.

As we go, I will be making some posts that will help you avoid wrong decisions regarding your child's education

Holding this topic for a while will help those who will get here late to catch up.



TEACHING KIDS TO READ EARLIER WITH SIGHT WORDS

This method is very popular amongst schools that want their pupils to read very early and parents who want to provide a learning advantage for their children.
Children exposed to sight words read before their mates. If you give your child that special advantage at home, in their classes, they will shine like a million stars. They will become the focus of attraction, attention, love, and privileges. Remember, you can't shoot down a shooting star. Nobody ever did.
This method has many names viz
look-say,
whole-word,
whole-language approach,
sight-words,
service-words,
high-frequency words, etc.

According to Wikipedia "sight words, often also called high frequency sight
words are commonly used words that
young children are encouraged to memorize as a whole by sight so that they can automatically recognize these words in print without having to
use any strategies to decode them."
Sight/high frequency words were developed from the research work started by Edward William Dolch in Britain in the 1930s. He presented a list of 220 words plus 95 high frequency nouns that make up 80% of the words you
would find in a typical children's book and 50% of the words found in writing for adults.
His list was reinforced by the in-depth collaborative research list of 1000 high frequency words compiled by Dr
Edward B. Fry in 1996, 1his American research found that;

Just 25 words make up approximately 1/3 of all published text,

100 words make up about 50% of all published text, and

300 words make up 65% of all written material

Wikipedia further says; "the advantage for children being able to recognize sight words automatically is that a beginning reader needs to recognize 50-75% of words at a beginning of any text before they attempt to read the material.
The child will not have to stop and process (think about) every single word; this allows children more time to concentrate on the meaning as they read and write.
Advocates of sight word instruction believe that being able to read many sight words automatically by sight contributes dramatically to fluent reading and is the best way to unlock the meaning of any text. As children begin to develop a store of sight words, they find learning new sight words easier. As a child acquires more sight words, his/her confidence will grow". Recognizing sight words automatically is helpful for beginning readers because many of these words have unusual spelling patterns, cannot be sounded out using basic phonics knowledge, and cannot be represented using pictures.
It is also of note that these words are already in the
children's vocabulary, hence it is easy for them to relate to and memorize their written forms. Research studies have shown that children taught with this method have higher reading levels than children
learning reading through only the phonics method. This is because they learn to automatically recognize a small selection of words. Combined with phonics instructions, a perfect reader is molded.
In advanced countries, many materials aid the teaching of sight words. We don't have them here. Where you chance to find them they cost a chunk.
As we progress, I will instruct you of a no-cost method you can easily use at home to teach your child sight words

Give us more info to flow with you.

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They are too many. Methinks they are serious.

[/b][b][b][/b]9ja people too sharp. Hard to beat. No wonder they survive even in Finland and Greenland.
Political frames. Hmmm. They are nice though. Sharp guys.
Anybody sabi where I fit get some

Na way oh!!!

Na when I see I go talk. Abi

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You know about consonants and vowels. Cool. Have gone through a four or five-year university program without ever having heard about these terms;
voiced consonants,
voiceless consonants,
long vowels,
Short vowels and
Diphthongs?

In those days there used to be a subject called Oral English. Hey! The ivy league schools just christened it Phonics but actually it is technically called Phonetics. But permit me to use the tern Phonics.
Somehow, most of us in Africa learned how to read by default.
Actually Phonics is the global best practice on the process of teaching children to read.
A child that learned how to read the Phonics way is well grounded in both written and spoken English. Aside WORDS FAMILIES(that is story for another day), Phonics has the highest volume of tearning resources online. Just be aware that Phonics is not a subject I will use just one article to expose you to.
If you really want to avoid getting embarrassed some day take action. Make out a little time and appreciate the beautiful way of understanding the English language you may have missed. Someday you will be happy that you did, especially if you mingle with “ex-ivies”.
Be warned that at the beginning, it may sound like an extinct foreign language like Latin. Persevere, spend more time, the moment you are able to unlock the secret you will be surprised at the beauty you missed.

Many city residents have been seeking greener, and safer, pastures amid the coronavirus pandemic — but rather than welcoming them, locals have showered them with hostility for possibly bringing the illness along, according to the Guardian.

Rensselaer County Executive Steven McLaughlin told the news outlet that “many, many, many” people have recently arrived.

“They’re coming up and they’re occupying hotel rooms, Airbnbs, that type of thing,” said McLaughlin, adding that his county had 51 cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday — “seven at least that are direct from New York City.”

Last week, he appealed to Gov. Andrew Cuomo to ban all non-essential travel from Gotham to upstate.

When the governor declined, McLaughlin issued a public health order that anyone arriving from the coronavirus-ravaged city must contact local officials immediately and be subject to a 14-day quarantine.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/02/new-yorkers-fleeing-coronavirus-face-scorn-from-upstate-neighbors/?utm_source=whatsapp_sitebuttons

BENARI:
Op your stupidity and foolishness no get part 2. What is there to brag about a measure put in place to deal with a crisis?

Just like saying somebody was buried in a world class coffin.

Truly jobless youth we have in Nigeria. Senseless ones at that.

The Igbos are not known for running their mouth any how. People like you spread such notions.
Just view ed your profile. You are agent.. that shows you are unemployed. There are other pointers in your profile that show you are largely idle. Small boy, I come to nairaland to have fun cos there are great young minds there. In a real discuss people like you can't even contribute. I judge you knowledge as shallow. Look for your mate. Am not one of them. If I require an apology from you in this forum I can get it. I don't need it from people like you. But please watch how you insult people. Igbos I know are not like that

Following the great increase of the number of confirmed Coronavirus cases in Nigeria and Lagos having the highest number of it, with over 40 cases.

The threat became very high, with public crying for a better and more conducive isolation Centre and facilities, mostly for Lagos due to the high number of cases.

Due to this cry, The Federal Government, some celebrities, companies, and some humanitarians donated lots of money.

Just this Saturday the Lagos State government announced the delivery of a 110-bed isolation facility for the management and treatment of confirmed cases of coronavirus.

https://news-af.feednews.com/news/detail/ccf26d835ede8f9835d4a42560b62e20?client=news

Yeah!!! They are in the medical profession, guy, close your eyes one second and tell yourself say you wan go do that kin work. Open your eyes and see what you will tell yourself. Tell our wife or mama say see where you wan go. Even if you be doctor... they will discourage you. Guys who take take this risk for us should be celebrated. They are men and women of steel.

You are ungrateful
You would meet them needing them Amen
Thank God some of us still appreciate.

No doubt, to some extent, you will agree with me that Nigeria has tried to a greater point to contain and fight the outbreak of Coronavirus. It is only 2 deaths that have been reported as at the time this was being written. Please, permit me to show you pictures of some of the unsung heroes behind the successes recorded so far... .
https://www.operanewsapp.com/ng/en/share/detail?news_id=f0576b956f5c59eb3e938317f7c0a3b4&news_entry_id=s71341590200331en_ng&open_type=transcoded&request_id=RELATED_NEWS_fcf1a141-bd59-45b8-b446-ee21b826d73f&from=mini

Without customers no business can survive, more so banks. How come no bank has decided to "ROGER" its customers at this trying time. Surely any bank that can come in to appreciate it's customers at this time by dropping something into our accounts as we all go into lockdown will be remembered. This is so because if covid19 does not kill us, hungevirus go show us pepper.
We are waiting for the first bank to take lead. Maybe if we raise our voices more they can do something.
#myBANKabegROJERme.

We just need prayers

Guy, if you know any guy in the US. Call him and hear from him it's not a fluke. This is for real. That some fools who don't even have covid19 ODed on chloroquine does not dim this. PRAISE GOD THAT THE CURE IS AFFORDABLE. IF NA ONE MILA DRUG YOU GO BELIEVE AM

Covid-19 and the dark sides of the medical world,



AUTHOR:

Magnus Onyibe

According to preliminary test trial reports, of 350 patients administered with a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin medication in the state of New York , within 3-4 hours, breathing was restored, zero intubation, zero hospitalisation and zero death.

If the above very encouraging statistics coming out of New York turns out to be authentic, then governor Andrew Cuomo, who damned the bureaucratic red herrings in Washington by authorizing the test trial, will go into history book as a true hero of Covid-19 pandemic that deserves to be celebrated as it is a tangible evidence that the killer virus which has so far forced the elderly amongst us to their early graves is about to be reined in.

IF YOU ARE WONDERING WHY THE DELAY IN ARRIVING AT A CURE
READ THIS ARTICLE CHECK

https://www.thecable.ng/covid-19-and-the-dark-sides-of-the-medical-world/amp[sub][/sub]

Covid-19 and the dark sides of the medical world,



AUTHOR:

Magnus Onyibe

According to preliminary test trial reports, of 350 patients administered with a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin medication in the state of New York , within 3-4 hours, breathing was restored, zero intubation, zero hospitalisation and zero death.

If the above very encouraging statistics coming out of New York turns out to be authentic, then governor Andrew Cuomo, who damned the bureaucratic red herrings in Washington by authorizing the test trial, will go into history book as a true hero of Covid-19 pandemic that deserves to be celebrated as it is a tangible evidence that the killer virus which has so far forced the elderly amongst us to their early graves is about to be reined in.

For the nearly four months or so since covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan city in the Kobe district of China , coronavirus had busted the notion of indefatigability built around the powerful, by sending many world leaders into quarantine. From Boris Yelsin, the UK,prime minister, to Justin Trudeau, the Canadian president and Angela Merkhel, the prime minister of Germany who are currently ‘sheltering  in place’ after testing positive for the virus , the deadly coronavirus is exhibiting the tendencies of not differentiating between the plebeians and the powerful leaders of some of the richest and most powerful nations on earth.

Not even some of the most famous monarchs and princes are spared as the queen of England Elizabeth ll has  retreated into her alternative abode deep in the countryside for the fear of catching the dreaded coronavirus sickness. The 93 years old queen’s over 70 years old son, prince Charles, having been diagnosed positive of the virus, has also now taken refuge  in a remote part of England deep in the woods for treatment and recuperation.

With so much doom and gloom pervading the global space as reflected by the alarming number of people on track to hit a million mark infected, and nearly thirty (30) thousand so far dead , the good news that a combination of the common malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin has overwhelmed the virus is supposed to bring the much needed sunshine into a palpably death laden global atmosphere.

So it is disheartening and disappointing that some unseen hands in the organized medical/ pharmaceutical products development and marketing sector of the world, embedded in the inner recesses of the establishment in New York and Washington may be pursuing selfish and exploitative agenda, hence this otherwise cherry development is not being ventilated or given the attention that it deserves.

Is it not quixotic that the tested and proven combination of anti malaria remedy of hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic, azithromycin which have produced positive effects of successfully curing coronavirus patients is not even being considered a frontline antidote for the killer virus by the US Centre For Disease Control, CDC and Food and Drugs Administration,FDA?

It is my suspicion that the tzars of the industry regulatory agencies that are claiming that hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin need more extensive clinical trials-a bureaucratic process that takes a very long period and therefore an unwise measure to take at this critical point in time are being manipulated by the unseen hands of vested interests. How else can one explain a situation whereby an effective, perhaps not the most efficient medication needed to stem the tide of death that now pervades the world is bring taken off the equation as a potential cure, if not to create some delay that would allow the medications currently in the pipelines-Remdesivir first developed as trial antidote for Ebola  and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, MERS now being targeted at coronavirus,come into gestation?

Isn’t it preposterous that it’s only two or so that are on full trials in the USA ?  Contrast that with China which has on clinical trial about twelve, including the good old chloroquine.

In the war front, which leaders of all nations now have a consensus of opinion that the coronavirus pandemic has become, does effective treatment of a wounded soldier not trump the efficient dressing of the wound?

So why are the medical/ pharmaceutical products regulatory agencies and the dark, powerful and manipulative forces promoting some yet to be clinically tested drugs, while discountenancing the established efficacy of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin ?

A number of reasons could be adduced for that.

The most plausible in my view is probably because chloroquine with a World War II origin is about a century old medication and in that status it has become generic, very cheap and therefore a spoiler for the big players in the medical/ pharmaceutical world waiting to cash in on the business opportunity created by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The excuse being made by the opponents of the use of chloroquine-the popular anti malaria solution is that there may be harmful side effects of the therapy which the drug regulatory authorities don’t want to expose Americans to. Truth is that there is no drug that does not have a side effect.

Even if the fears about unsavory side effects were to be true, coronavirus kills its patients, evidence of which is that about 30,000 and counting human beings have died worldwide in the past three months of the of the pandemic.

Is it not better a sufferer from Covid-19 illness saves his/her life by taking chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine solution and risk suffering a side effect as a living being , than dying from the disease owing to no treatment at all?

As things currently stand, it is as if it is being argued and considered better to let coronavirus patients die by not being given the opportunity to be treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin to stay alive simply because of the unfounded fear that a cure via hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin combination might impair other organs in the body.

Ironically, it is being stated by doctors that those who recover from coronavirus attacks even without hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin solution would suffer  permanent damage to their  breathing system.

If that outcome is acceptable by the authorities, why is it that the yet to be established possible negative side-effects from hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin be such a big deal, as the Americans would say?

I suspect that it is the vice grip of the under ground forces on the medical world that is strengthening the demurring attitude of the leaders of CDC and FDA over the use of the well documented hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin.  If my suspicion is correct, it would not be the first time in the history of the USA that vested interests would be putting the agenda of money making over the safety of lives.

To put my things in context, let’s recall the high wired conspiracy by the NFL to prevent Bennett Omalu, a US/Nigerian neurosurgeon based in West Virginia from publishing his discovery in 2005 that persistent head butting in the course of the sport was responsible for the mental illness of NFL players after retirement.

Hitherto, there was no knowledge of the cause of the very mentally debilitating diseases amongst NFL players who more often than not ended up going nuts. Since Omalu’s sudden discovery of the disease during his routine work in the university of West Virginia laboratory that he named Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy,CTE was  going to dramatically change the course and cost of engaging in or doing business in the National Football League, NFL, America’s favorite game, the movers and shakers of the multi billion dollars industry, resolved to discredit Omalu’s CTE report despite the unimpeachable science behind it, in order not to upturn the money spinning Apple cart-NFL.

In a special report titled Game Brain by Jeanne Marie Laskas in GQ magazine , October 2009, in narrating his sordid experience, Ben Omalu said  “There are times I wish I never looked at Mike Webster’s brain. It has dragged me into worldly affairs I do not want to be associated with. Human meanness, wickedness, and selfishness. People trying to cover up, to control how information is released. I started this not knowing I was walking into a minefield. That is my only regret.”

I see a repeat of the well documented and celebrated conspiracy of NFL leadership against the now renown scientist, but hitherto unknown Ben Omalu after he discovered CTE as being a strong factor for the  deadly mental conditions of players to the chagrin of the NFL top dogs. The discovery became one of the critical factors that changed the NFL game for the better as Omalu persistently proved the case against the tidal wave of NFL’s crushing power.

By discountenancing a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a possible cure for the all conquering monster of a virus-Covid-19 which is somehow quixotic, the vested interests in the  multi billion dollars medical industry , it is pretty clear that the major stake holders are not ready to  allow a very inexpensive cocktail of medication to be the solution into the project of finding cure for coronavirus of which they have invested several millions of dollars in researching  and developing.

Heartily, the US president, Donald Trump who is very anxious to put the menace of covid-19 behind him so that he can get on with the business of getting re-elected for a second term in office later in November, don’t have that kind of optics or share in what seems like the sinister agenda of the medical/pharmaceutical industry goons hellbent on maintaining a stranglehold on the sector, hence he was excited when he first got wind of the intelligence that a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin could be the elixir for the issues giving him political cramps-Covid-19 pandemic that he is currently grappling with.

Similarly, despite the reservations being expressed by the medical industry regulators , FDA and CDC, New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo decided to cut through the bluster by also embracing  the proposal to try hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin combination on New Yorkers infected with the novel coronavirus. That’s ostensibly  because of the governor’s desire to  spare himself the torture of staying up at night to ponder what he can humanly possibly do to stem the ugly tide of burying so many members of his political constituents being killed in droves by the monster-coronavirus pandemic.

Although, both the president of the USA and the governor of the state of New York seem to be aligned on the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin,it is not for the same noble goal of upending the vested interest in the medical/pharmaceutical industry whose enlightened self interest may be causing the world to loose more lives that could have been saved with the cheap drug being despised. Rather it is for the personal selfish interests of politicians representing both the Republican and Democratic parties in the USA .

So in a manner that reflects the conventional wise crack ‘different strokes for different folks,’ the separate agendas of the two politicians at federal and state levels are combining to have a common positive effect on the medical/pharmaceutical industry in the way that the discovery of CTE by Ben Omalu initially rankled the leadership of the NFL before his discovery eventually culminated into positive outcome for USA’s favorite sports-NFL. In fact, Ben Omalu’s ordeal in the hands of the seedy powers behind the scene pulling the puppet strings in the world of NFL actually inspired a blockbuster movie titled:CONCUSSION which stars Will Smith as Dr Omalu.

Being in tropical Africa, a malaria prone zone, there is hardly any adult Nigerian that has not been treated with chloroquine in his or her life time because at some point in time it was the preferred and almost exclusive anti malaria medication. As President Trump remarked in one of his media briefings, Africans have been using chloroquine without untoward consequences. And by the same token l would argue that some chloroquine residues ingested long ago might still abide in the blood stream of most of us. Arising from the above , I’m of the conviction that our physicians would not subscribe to the New York and Washington conspiracy against the tested and proven chloroquine by exposing Nigerians that test positive for the coronavirus virus to an unnecessary wait for the full evolution of the work-in-progress drugs still in undergoing clinical trial.

Rather, l’m persuaded that they won’t be distracted by the buccaneers in the USA who are engaging in the shenanigans of denouncing the application of the century old medicine as remedy for the coronavirus disease that has exhibited the characteristics of malaria and other ailments that were previously treated with chloroquine.

In the absence of a new cure for a monster of a disease that is killing humans for daring to breathe in a manner akin to how atomic or nuclear force sucks away oxygen in the atmosphere leading to the horrific end of human life, the consequences of which are the death toll now spiraling out of control , a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin medication becomes the real cure or one of the antidotes for the almighty coronavirus disease.

Sticking to the good old dictum that the devil you know is better than the angel you don’t know, Nigerian medical practitioners should not be swayed by the powerful underworld of the medical/pharmaceutical industry who are pursuing their selfish and narrow interests . It is only when the medical community in Nigeria elect to rely on their experience rather than practice, would Nigerians and indeed the world have a happy ending to this hell on earth experience (Covid-19) previously imagined to exist only in the realm of Steven king’s hair raising book on pandemics ‘The Stand’  or similar Ski-fi movies and other works of fiction .

Onyibe, a development strategist and alumnus of the Fletcher school of law and diplomacy, Tufts University, Massachusetts USA, is the founder CEO of Germbusters.ng by Inspire Consulting Ltd. He sent this piece from Lagos.
https://www.thecable.ng/covid-19-and-the-dark-sides-of-the-medical-world/amp

We watch so much films these days that we always want to explain everything out along that line. That is the trap you seem to have fallen into. The US Navy SEALS is an elite force. It is sort of an infiltration force. Lets go back a little bit. During the second world war, the US PT team, as the US elite forces were known then really aided the allied forces victory. Without the them “longest day” or the” D day” which ever way you want to refer to it would have been written in favour of the Hitler’s German Third Reich. The success of the PT teams encouraged JF Kennedy to mandate the American Armed Forces ( NAVY, ARMY AIR FORCE AND THE MARINES) to set up special Forces for special operations.

The Army set up the Green Berets, Night Stalkers, Rangers and the and the popular Delta Force(The 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (1st SFOD-D).
The Navy set up the special Underwater Demolition Teams (UDT) under the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (or DEVGRU), often referred to as SEAL Team Six ( the popular SEALS that you know)
The Marine has MARSOC and RECON.
The Air Force established the 24th Special Tactics Squadron and the Air Force Special Operations
The CIA though not a recipient of the presidential order set up the most secret, the toughest and most elite SAD (special activities division)known as the Black Ops and you have to have been a member of be one of the previously mentioned special forces to be considered.

special operations are military activities conducted by specially designated, organized, trained, and equipped forces, manned with selected personnel, using unconventional tactics, equipment, techniques, and modes of employment. These activities may be conducted across the full range of military operations, independently or with conventional forces. Most times, politico-military considerations may require clandestine or covert techniques and the acceptance of a degree of political or military risk not associated with operations by conventional forces.

Their primary role is to conduct sabotage, reconnaissance, subversion and other special operations on the territory of foreign countries. In wartime, they may also be assigned tasks such as intelligence-gathering, the seizure or destruction of key installations( most times behind enemy lines), the conduct of psychological operations or the organization of insurgencies in the enemy’s rear area. They may be involved in direct action and or military assistance to friendly nations in order to undertake difficult, dangerous and sometimes politically sensitive missions.

THE SEALS (SEa, Air and Land);
Of all the above, the seals stand out. Read about them to understand better. The navy selects 1,000 of its best boys form all its formations and grills them for about a year and half and only about 20% pass through. If many still remain, the simulated hell of Hell’s Week weeds them. You have to through pass super human endurance levels, trained razor sharp and after passing through survival, evasion, escape and resistance training they become harder than diamond. In all USA wars they have always be given “those assignments nobody wants”. They constitute a very, very little faction of their forces though they handle the toughest ”actions” , they have lowest casualty/activity figures and win the most medals. Sure a SEAL could(WILL) outsmart 100 regular soldiers. Yes. Remember a war is not a wrestling match. It is not a face to face thing. IT IS ALL ABOUT TACTICS AND STRATEGY.

Whence a dog has tasted blood, it is no good no more. Once a young man has tasted the power behind the barrel, only Almighty God can tame him. When in december 1, 2006 President Felipe Calderón assumed office as the President of Mexico he promised the drug cartels fire. With the help of America and her drug agency he delivered on his promise. He almost like wiped out all the major cartel drug lords. Unknowingly, he created another problem. Hear Time magazine of January 17, 2014; “...Many killers who worked for the cartels have become independent gangs of kidnappers trying to turn a quick buck, police say: ‘There are local gangs that have been left without the cartel bosses to pay them but they still have the guns and are looking for an income,”
Armed robbery was unknown in Nigeria until after the civil war. Like his style or not, I think late President Yaradua should be seen as one of the super visionary leader of this nation. When he proposed the amnesty agenda, in my mind is was like “this is a stupid, useless, lame idea that lacked intellectual understanding and depth”. My verdict; it was bound to fail. Lo! And behold, that unusual and “stupid” idea worked. I think it had to do with his kind of person and the company he encouraged. Those guns and other weapons of mass destruction that were WILLINGLY SURRENDERED is unprecedented in conflict resolution. Quote me. I had feared that whenever the Niger delta militants were defeated, the after effect will be like that of Mexico where the quality of your security team is the index of wealth. An imported American ex-seal team member in your team rates you a billionaire. BUT NO. The problem was solved and buried FOREVA.
The security challenges we have now; the Boko Haram insurgency, the Shiite Muslims grudge, the reawakening of the Niger Delta militants and the IPOB/MOSSOB agitation all call for a home grown, unusual, intelligent, tough but humane strategy. My fear is that the APC, the president’s kitchen and official cabinets are populated by hawks. The doves a very few to balance the equation of solving these security problems without creating mutants of the problems solved. I fear. I fear. I only pray that like in Yaradua’s case I will be wrong again. Honesty, I will be happy to be wrong so that Nigeria will be a safer place.

I hear una...

In recorded history of this our civilization no epidemic has been able to wipe out the human race. But it has always been a reoccurring decimal that when these global threats debut they are not taken seriously at the beginning until the numbers of deaths start rising. This is truer in our poor underdeveloped countries.
Yes, we the people and our governments place very low value on our lives and the media in the developed countries treat our threat as such. No adequate publicity. If the dreaded Ebola had been tackled head on at the beginning most of those that lost their lives to it would have been alive today. Now is lassa fever. If we all mobilize to defeat this scourge, just a few months we shall be looking at victory.
Until the governments and the civil societies mobilize us, I think we can do these few things to be help ourselves.

Rats:
(1) Rats will not be in your house if you make sure all holes are covered.

(2) If you must chase and kill rats with sticks, be sure to dispose such sticks and the killed rats properly. Incineration or deep burying is recommended.

(23) For now, don't mind the cost, do not reuse rat gum.

(4) Avoid use of the regular iron rat traps and fancy chamber baits. Unless you are prepared to dispose them with their kill.

(5) Hey! Check out natural and predator urine repellants... They are good for indoor and outdoor purposes.

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